Dansgroep Amsterdam

Recently i was invited to work with choreographer Sjoerd Vreugdenhil and Dansgroep Amsterdam on the performance " Viewture 2".

This performance in three parts ( Sjoerd Vreugdenhil- one i was body, Ivgi & Gerben - i could almost taste you baby and Jussi Nousiainen- Awoom ) was an incredible struggle of work, pain, esthetics and sensuality.

Sjoerd Vreugdenhil developed the set design for Viewture II

by first of all fulfilling his colleagues’wishes, and in a further

stage responding to the result of this design. This gave him

an empty, but spacious feeling to work with. He cast his

mind back over his past, and thought about how his body

felt when he was in his physical prime.Mental flashbacks of

choreographies he had danced in gave rise to the question

of how it feels to live in a thick cloud for almost ten years.

It was not physically or mentally oppressive, but it was very

limited in comparison to his time as a dancer. In order to

physically translate these thoughts and feelings, he asked

the dancers to draw on emotions from their own young life.

The creative process turned into an intensive cooperation

between the choreographer and the dancers. The resulting

choreography features five characters who each form part

of Vreugdenhil’s dance memory in an autonomous world of

the present. Sculptor Cedric Laquieze created a metaphoric

object to represent the theme,thus catalysing the dancers

both mentally and physically.

The sculpture in question is one of the flower skeleton series that the dancers affectionately called Pina.